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Meiofauna of some sandy beaches of Andaman Islands

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Title Meiofauna of some sandy beaches of Andaman Islands
 
Creator Ansari, Z.A.
Ingole, B.S.
 
Subject Aquatic Communities
beaches
vertical distribution
abundance
meiobenthos
ISW, India, Andaman I.
 
Description Comparatively high meiofauna numbers were recorded from beaches having fine sand particles than those having coarse to medium sand particles The fauna was dominated mainly by nematodes (53.7%), harpacticoids (13.7%) and polychaetes (12.8%) On all the beaches, meiofauna concentrated in the upper 4 cm layer of the sediment Nematodes, polychaetes and oligochaetes were present throughout the column of 10 cm core
 
Date 1995-05-11T10:00:56Z
2017-09-29T13:48:36Z
1995-05-11T10:00:56Z
2017-09-29T13:48:36Z
1983
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, vol.12; 1983; 245-246
0379-5136
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/6537
 
Language en
 
Relation Indian J Mar Sci
SCI
 
Publisher CSIR-NISCAIR